Vintage Orion!

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Vintage Orion!

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Hi all!

Here's a different image for a change, stumbled upon from an old, almost forgotten, harddisk - of the Orion constellation, taken way back in 2002 during an expedition to Mersing! In fact, to be exact, it was dated during the 15-17th March 2002 expedition! This is obviously a film-based image then. Interesting, it was taken by a medium format camera I'd owned for a period. It is not exactly a top notch image, and as you can see, there is banding evident in the image (left side) and the plane of the film was not held entirely flat then. This was a direct scanned result from the slide. The details of the image are as follows:

Film: Ektarchrome 200, 120 format
Imager: Hasselblad CF80mm f2.8 set at f5.6, Hasselblad 500CM
Guidescope: Tak FC60 on the Losmandy G11 mount.
Exposure: 50 minutes. No autoguiding! Fully manual, lots of mosquitoes!
Scanner: Agfa Duoscan 1000ppi

It was quite exciting back then, I could remember, when this image showed almost all the nebulosity features, notably the Barnard's Loop, Orion Bubble, M42, B33, Rosette, and the Witch-head Nebula (possibly with a little imagination!)....

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Hi,
Beautiful!! :D :D

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Post by cataclysm »

Oh ho! You captured the Rosette too! No current ccd can cover that wide field......Beautiful!!!
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Not forgetting Barnard's Loop too.
Cool!
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Post by kazumacat »

It is way too cool rcj~!!! So many objects together in a photo~!!
This is excellent~!!
Is the redish area and a curve with the same color Barnard's Loop???
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Post by zackae »

Omg... You sooo make me wanna go to Mersing. So many different smudges to be seen with the naked eye with colour.( btw those smudges are nebula i think.) Well, guess I'll make it to mersing in a few years time when I'm older.

P.S. the Rosette looks awesome even though it's so small.
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Post by weixing »

Hi,
the naked eye with colour.
Err... you still won't see colour on most nebula even in Mersing dark sky or any dark site. Our eye are just not that sensitive to colour on dim objects.

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Post by MooEy »

oo, caught one meteor too. i guess ccd sensor are way too small to capture something this widefield.

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Post by weixing »

Hi,
i guess ccd sensor are way too small to capture something this widefield.
Now consumer CCD size are getting bigger and bigger, so it's just a matter of time. I think Kodak KAF-39000 is one of the largest consumer CCD available: 49mm by 36.8mm, 39MP.

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Post by MooEy »

hoho, dun let ur wife knows how much it cost. megapixel seems to be going up, but size of ccd arn't really moving up that fast. i think so far biggest i saw was 50 x 50, 4.3mp. freaking big, almost nearing medium format le.

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